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Tawa Estates, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Claibourne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43344. The Survey maps it on the Richwood quadrangle.

Tawa Estates within Union County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tawa Estates, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Tawa Estates, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 221 shown

Museums hold 221 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tawa Estates between 1880 and 1975: 206 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B., D. & B., D., B., D. & K., D., Baumgartner, L. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581880not recordedMarysville, Union, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Haliaeetus leucocephalus, not of this specimenHaliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766)1881not recordedPleasant Valley, Union, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1892E E BogueProspect
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1894Mrs. Smyth
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ã…ngstr.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Tetraphis pellucida, not of this specimenTetraphis pellucida Hedw.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Thelia asprella, not of this specimenThelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull.1894Mrs. Smyth
Uredo1897W. A. Kellerman
Uromyces plumbarius Peck1897W. A. Kellerman
unnamed1914not recorded
Erasmoneura nigra (Gillette, 1898)1914H.T. Osborn
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919MCFARLAND F. T.Prospect

All 221 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tawa Estates: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fleming PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fleming PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Penry DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Prospect Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Prospect SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Union County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Richwood1.9 miles11
Magnetic Springs4.4 miles13
Woodland4.4 miles11
Claiborne4.9 miles11
Pharisburg5.3 miles13
Essex5.4 miles11
West Jackson7.7 miles12
Summersville7.9 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122563605The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2771055. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.